I have known men who have been sold and bought a hundred times, who have only got very fat and very comfortable in the process of exchange.

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.

Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.

Scandals are like dandelion seeds--they are arrow-headed, and stick where they fall, and bring forth and multiply fourfold.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.

Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.

Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds.

I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

Do not mourn the dead. They know what they are doing.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.

I intend no modification of my oft-expressed wish that all men everywhere could be free.

My influences are with Irish music, church music and classical music.

Purity is something that comes from another world. It's a radiance that enters into this world of transformation and change.

oh my god, she said are you going to be reasonable about this?

He tipped her head up. "Don't give up. Don't leave me before you're even here.

Humor is an attitude, a survivor’s way of looking at life. It’s not about telling jokes.

This hobble of being alive is rather serious, don’t you think so?